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Microsoft Working on Document Format Translator

KIRKLAND, Wash. - Microsoft is planning an open-source translator project that will read a binary and then write this out in the Open XML format, bypassing the need for users to have Microsoft Office installed.

This new open-source project will start on SourceForge.net on Feb. 15 and will fall u...